Warming-shelf for stoves.



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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 17, 1910. Serial No. 587,406.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EVA A. PETERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Villisca, in the county of Montgomery and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Warming Shelves for Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a warmingshelf for oil and gasolene stoves. a

The primary objects of this invention are, first, to provide a warming shelf that may be very readily and easily applied to the ordinary oil or gasolene stove, second, to so construct the shelf that it will furnish heat over its entire surface, and third, to extend the shelf beyond the top of the stove, thus adding to the shelf capacity of the stove top and increasing the warming surface.

VVith' the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a top plan view, illustrating the application of the shelf to an oil stove. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section, taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 4 is a reverse plan view of the shelf, and Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view of a modification of the invention.

Referring to the drawings for a more particular description of the invention, and which drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are therefore not drawn to scale, 1 indicates the top of the stove, 2 the burner shields, 3 the warming shelf and 1 the grates.

The warming shelf 3 extends nearly if not entirely across the entire length of the stove top, as indicated in Fig. 1 and extends a considerable distance beyond the back edge 5 of the top as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The warming shelf is provided at its front or outer edge with two or more semi'circular series of heating lugs 6 which extend downwardly for a suitable distance into the burner shields 2 and are formed by slitting and depressing portions of the warming shelf.

The entire warming shelf is constructed of aluminum or other heat conducting material and as a consequence, as the heating may be placed on the shelf when the fire.

is on and kept warm almost tothecooking polnt.

The warming shelf has attached to its bot-' tom face the transversely disposed stay irons 7, whichtaot as reinforcing and supporting Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

lugs 6 are heated by the blaze the heat is 42' means for the shelf. The inner ends of the stay irons are provided with the inwardly bent hooks 8 which engage the top of the stove next to the grate, and thus secure the warming shelf in position. The warming shelf is further provided at its front edge with the are shaped reinforcing and supporting pieces 8 which project beyond said edge, and are attached at their inner ends thereto and provide a supporting means for the front edge of the shelf. The shelf is further provided at one of its front corners with the hook 9 which engages the adjacent end of the stove top, said hook being pro vided with the retention screw 10, which may be screwed into engagement with the bottom of the stove top to serve as an additional attaching means for the shelf.

The device is herein shown as applied to an oil stove, but may be used in connection with gasolene stoves by suitably forming the heating lugs 6 to extend into the fire flame.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings, the shelf is provided with a sheet iron bottom 11 between which and the shelf is placed one or more sheets of asbestos paper 12.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the drawings, it is thought that the construction and advantages of this invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportions and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principles or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having described the invention what is claimed as new, is V 1. A warming shelf of the class described consisting of a sheet of heat conducting material provided at its front edge with one or more semi-circular series of downwardly projecting heating lugs adapted to, extend into proximity to the flame and acting as initial conductors for the heat, said lugs being formed by slitting and depressing portions of the metal from which the shelf is formed, and means for attaching the shelf to the top of an oil or gasolene stove.

2. A Warming shelf for oil or gasolene stoves consisting of a sheet of heat conducting material adapted to be mounted upon the stove top and extending beyond the back of the top and provided at its front edge With one or more series of downwardly projecting heating lugs acting as initial conductors for the heat and adapted to extend Copies of this patent may be obtained for into proximity to the flame, a series of transversely disposed stay irons attached to the bottom of the shelf and provided at their front ends With inwardly bent hooks adapted to engage the stove top, said irons acting as reinforcing and supporting means for the shelf and attaching means for the front end of the shelf.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EVA A. PETERSON.

W. J. PETERSON.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

